[Python-3000] PEP 3131 accepted (original) (raw)

Guillaume Proux gproux+py3000 at gmail.com
Thu May 24 04:14:15 CEST 2007

Regarding using looking-alike glyphs (in certain fonts) security issues, wouldn't it be a good thing for any project anyway to have a number of pre-conditions for any given contribution to a given project to be cleared. On of such litmus tests would be like the following. try: codecs.open("contributedfile.py","r","ascii") print("contribution accepted") except UnicodeDecodeError: print("contribution rejected. evil non-ascii characters lurking in your source. ")

(it should be possible (and this is left as exercise to the reader) to use some regexp to first remove from the scope of the test strings and comments or to use AST tools to make the tests directly on the generated AST)

In Japan, replace the above "ascii" by "sjis" for example.

it should be fairly easy to write a number of tools that would highlight "strange" characters in a piece of source code and I trust that if there is such a need, the market for python specialized editors (and other generic editors) will let you pick a different color for characters that would not be part of the ascii set. Once again, mostly a presentation and workflow issue that can be solved by using the right tools or writing some very simple tools to work around your favorite editor's lacks.

Regards,

Guillaume

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